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Slice-Less Optical Arbitrary Waveform Measurement (OAWM) in a Bandwidth of More than 600 GHz Using Soliton Microcombs
We propose and demonstrate a novel scheme for optical arbitrary waveform
measurement (OAWM) that exploits chip-scale Kerr soliton combs as highly
scalable multiwavelength local oscillators (LO) for ultra-broadband full-field
waveform acquisition. In contrast to earlier concepts, our approach does not
require any optical slicing filters and thus lends itself to efficient
implementation on state-of-the-art high-index-contrast integration platforms
such as silicon photonics. The scheme allows to measure truly arbitrary
waveforms with high accuracy, based on a dedicated system model which is
calibrated by means of a femtosecond laser with known pulse shape. We
demonstrated the viability of the approach in a proof-of-concept experiment by
capturing an optical waveform that contains multiple 16 QAM and 64 QAM
wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) data signals with symbol rates of up to
80 GBd, reaching overall line rates of up to 1.92 Tbit/s within an optical
acquisition bandwidth of 610 GHz. To the best of our knowledge, this is the
highest bandwidth that has so far been demonstrated in an OAWM experiment